In an unfortunate accident, at least 20 people died and six were injured when a passenger bus collided with an oil tanker near Uch Sharif at Jalalpur Peerwala interchange on Multan-Sukkur Motorway (M-5) Tuesday wee hours.
Both vehicles caught fire killing at least 20 persons
The horrific accident occurred at 2 am on M5 in Uch Sharif near Multan where a bus going to Karachi from Lahore collided with an oil tanker.
At 4am at motorway obarra junobi terrible accident happened between bus LES -1211- 09 and Oil TankerLDA/6. Bus that was moving from Lahore to Karachi hit oil Tanker from backside and fire erupted.06X persons got Injured and 20X died on the spot.On spot monitoring rescue process pic.twitter.com/r87E2OvvmF
— Commissioner Multan (@CommissionerMu2) August 16, 2022
National Highway and Motorway Police along with Rescue 1122 teams rescued eight persons and shifted them to a hospital where two injured persons succumbed to their injuries.
Multan Deputy Commissioner Tahir Wattoo said that Rescue 1122 has recovered 18 dead bodies so far.